The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the Federal Security Service and the Main Directorate of Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted a special trade on the roads to identify false identities, numbers and flashing lights. Counterintelligence officers tried to find out whether it is legal for people in uniform to use sound and light special signals and operational and service documents.
The raid took place on the main highways of the capital, together with traffic police orders. Field investigators checked more than a thousand cars; more than a hundred protocols on administrative offenses were compiled. Moreover, the overwhelming majority of violations were committed by drivers, on whose vehicles the numbers of privileged series were listed.
The operation began on the morning of September 5 at Mytnaya Street. The traffic police inspectors stopped cars with passes under the glass and “thieves” numbers. Some drivers, refusing to comply with the requirements of the police, tried to put pressure on them and, without giving any reason, insisted on the cessation of the proceedings. Others presented official certificates of various departments and organizations, including those with symbols of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. 65 certificates suspecting their authenticity were seized, and about a hundred false passes to the objects of the authorities.
FSB officers said that several types of violations were detected during raids. Most often, violators place gaps that impede normal vision under the windshield. Usually they are written on them by the FSB, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so that the traffic police are afraid to stop such a car.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs insists on imposing legal responsibility on drivers for the illegal use of official documents and their fakes in order to exert pressure on traffic inspectors. Counterintelligence officers believe that it is extremely difficult to respond to the use of forged documents in the legal field. And this, first of all, is connected with the absence of restrictions on the use of abbreviations and symbols of government bodies, in particular, on certificates and documents of public organizations.
Forensic experts say that public organizations issuing passes and certificates for money do not have the right to use symbols. Car inspectors add that the pass does not provide the driver with “protection” and does not give any indulgence on the road.
